Sena Decision AI shows housing teams what residents pay, what they would pay to rent, buy, or build, and where new homes are going up. Every figure traces to a resident answer, a site photo, or the team's own files.
Informal housing is rented, bought, and built through local agents, small builders, and family. Listings and registries show the formal slice, so housing data for the rest comes from residents and the sites a question names.
Listing sites and registries track the homes that are filed. Rents and prices in the informal sector are agreed person to person.
Sena:Sena captures what residents pay in rent, what they would pay to own, and how they would finance it, by segment and market.
Incremental housing adds a room, a floor, or a roof as money allows. Each step creates demand for materials, finance, and services.
Sena:Sena captures geo-verified photos of sites showing building activity in the areas a question names, with the stage and scale of each.
Housing demand moves with jobs, transport, and family size. City-wide figures blur those moves.
Sena:Sena captures where residents plan to move, rent, or build next, and why, in each market.
Sena settles these four decisions on informal housing from resident answers and site photos.
Residents state what they pay, what they would pay to rent or own, and which home they would choose next, by segment and market.
Decides:Which areas, unit sizes, and price points to build for first.
See strategy decisions →Sena captures geo-verified photos of sites showing clearing, staking, excavation, or a structure rising in the areas a question names, and reads the stage and scale of each.
Decides:Where materials, finance, and services teams focus first.
See construction project leads before the filing →Residents state how they earn, what they could repay each month, and how they pay for a room, a roof, or a deposit today, market by market.
Decides:Which loan sizes and terms keep housing affordability in reach for each segment.
See product decisions →Residents state which features matter most, from water and power to security and transport, and what they would trade for them.
Decides:Which features and services go into the next build or upgrade offer.
See innovation decisions →Sena ties every figure to the answer or photo behind it, so a team checks each one against the housing data it already holds.
Each answer comes from a resident who chose to share it. Every capture clears a multi-level QA flow. Sena declines a capture that misses the check, and the decline stays visible.
Each site reading carries its photo, location, and date. A site counts as active once a photo confirms it.
Housing demand starts with two counts: the households in the target area and the share who would rent or buy at the planned price. The team enters both and checks that share against resident answers.
The demand in reach calculator shows the households ready to move and the monthly revenue in reach.
A walkthrough runs Sena on one area in one market, from resident answer to the build decision.
Pick the closest fit, and the walkthrough starts from that team's question.
Informal housing demand read from resident answers.
Book a strategy walkthrough →Affordable housing developers sizing demand by unit, price, and area.
Book a developer walkthrough →Affordable housing finance priced on what residents say they could repay.
Book a finance walkthrough →Building activity confirmed by photo at the sites a question names, with stage and scale.
Book a materials walkthrough →Sena captures geo-verified photos and consumer activity in the markets a question names, when the question needs it.
Sena reads those captures beside the files and systems already in use, across 250+ integrations.
Sena compares the market against the plan and shows each gap, with every figure traced to its source.
| Area | Common method | Sena |
|---|---|---|
| Rents and prices | Listings and agent quotes | Residents state what they pay and would pay |
| Demand | Census counts and city-wide housing demand estimates | Where residents plan to move, rent, or build |
| Building activity | Permit filings | Geo-verified photos of active sites, with stage and scale |
| Finance | Credit files and formal payslips | How residents earn and what they could repay |
| Auditing | Agent, registry, and site reports matched by hand | Each housing figure links to its resident answer or site photo |
Talk to the Rwazi team about one area, one market, and the decision on the table this quarter.